Fringe 2025 – emerging Edinburgh company make their debut
An unwelcome visitor. A bombshell that changes everything.
Emerging Edinburgh-based theatre company Locked In Thought Theatre make their debut at this year's Edinburgh Fringe with Intrusion, an original play by James Cumming, in which the consequences of the past spill into the present.
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